Improvement in buckles



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JAMEs onYnE, or WEST HAVEN, oloNNE-'crioUE AssIeNoE ro TEE WEST HAVENA EUoKLE COMPANY, or SAME PLAGE.

VLeners Patent No. 109,321,1151'0911 November 15, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUCKLES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and mamng part of the same.

To dll whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, J AMES C. HYDE, of West Haven, iu the county of N ew Haven land State of Conuecticut, have invented a new Improvement in' Buckles; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawing and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, and which said drawing constitutes partof this speeitication, and represents in- Figure l, a tw0-partsingle buckle;

Figure 2', a two-part double buckle; and in Figure 3, a section, on line a' a; of iig. l.

This invention relates to an improvement in buckles; for wearing apparel, the object being to strengthen the usual manner othinging the parts together; andl It consists in forming the hinge by a loop of metal bent around each of theparts at the point of hinging, so that the said loop forms a flexible hinge, upon which the two parts turn.

d is the frame or one part of the buckle, and b the other part.

These two parts have usually been hinged together by attening or bending one around the other at the point where the hinge is desired. In doing this considerable diculty is experienced, particularly in thel double buckle, seen in tig. 2. y

In single buckles, flattening the ends of one part` and bending them around the other part necessarily harden the metal, so that it is liable to break.

To overcome this diiculty, around the two parts, at the hinged point al, seen in fig. 3, I bend a strip of thin metal, c, aroundaud over one,underrand around the other part; and I malte this metal of lsufficient; length to forni the bearing, and to retain the parts in their proper relative position.

This construction forms a flexible hinge, inasmuch as both parts turn within the loop.

It may be more expensive than the ordinary manner of hinging in single buckles, but no more so iu double buckles, and in both cases the hinge is Amuch stronger, and not so liable to break as when the hinge is directly formed from the metal of' one of the parts.

I claim as my invention- The hinge for buckles, consisting ot' the strip of metal c, bent and closed separately' around cach of the two parts to secure them together and form the hinge,

Substantially as setforth.

JAMES G. HYDE.

Witnesses:

A. J. TIBBITS, J. H. SHUMWAY. 

